The October Revolution. Flashcards
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Why was there a revolution in October?
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- On september 8th the the bolshviks gained control of Peterhead and Moscow and lenin had returned from exile in Finland.
- On the 23rd of October kersenky became more aware of the bolshviks and closed their newspapers pravda.
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Causes of the 1917 revolution Lenin
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- Lenin played on the weakness of provisional government and kerrenskey who had not sloved the war and land issues.
- Lenin used his intellect and oratory skills to offer a gloomy predection of the future if the bolshviks did not take power.
- Lenin used slogans like power to the Soviets to stress the importance of workers.
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Causes of the 1917 revolution trotsky
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- = during his exile 1907 - 17 he developed the ideas about permanent revolution
- His return is September 1917 as chairman of the petrograd soviet on the 9th October the soviet set up the MRC to organise defense of petrograd
- Trotsky became co-odrintors of the MRC he was able to influence it to challenge the provisional government.
4
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Weakness of the provisional government.
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- They failed to deliver when it came to the war and land issue stated by Lenin.